Other factors included were amount of exercise, smoking, coffee consumption, and previously diagnosed genital diseases.

“Modifiable risk factors”

“Our results indicate that the risk of miscarriage is increased by multiple potentially modifiable risk factors and a considerable proportion of miscarriages may be preventable”, co-author of the study Sandra Feodar Nilsson, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Department of Public Health said.

“We know that the modifiable aspects of the risk factors may be questioned as they often depend on other factors that are not necessarily easy to change.”

However, we think that information about increased chances of having a successful pregnancy at a relatively young age is an important perspective. If our findings are supported by future prospective cohort studies they may support a prevention strategy towards miscarriage.

In Denmark, miscarriage is defined as a “fetal death and/or expulsion before 22 completed weeks of gestation”.

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